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Coronal Loop Workshop XII

The Coronal Loop Workshop will be held from Monday 8th to Thursday 11th June 2026 at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

The Coronal Loops Workshops are a series of highly focused biennial meetings, organised since 2002. They deal with the observation and modelling of magnetically confined solar plasma. The general objective is to understand the physical processes that create and heat the magnetically closed corona (i.e. not flares, and jets).  

The Coronal Loop Workshop XII's overarching theme is “Magnetic Field Reconfiguration and Energy Partition”. We welcome submissions on high-resolution observations, heating and cooling of loop structures at different scales, and advanced numerical modelling. 

This is the 12th workshop of the well-established series. Past workshops were held in Orsay (2002), Palermo (2004), Santorini (2007), Firenze (2009), Palma de Mallorca (2011), La Roche-en-Ardenne (2013), Cambridge (2015), Palermo (2017), St Andrews (2019), Paris (2022), and La Laguna/Tenerife (2024). 

The abstract submission (for talks and posters) and pre-registration is open from the 15th of February until the 15th March 2026. We encourage graduate students and early-career postdocs to participate and present their research work. We will offer limited funding to support PhD candidates and ECRs. While abstracts are not required for participation, preference will be given to those who submit abstracts, to limit the number of participants to 75. 

Dates: Monday 8 - Thursday 11 June 2026

Location: The Great Hall, Sutherland Building, Ellison Pl, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST

Venue Access: There is a step-free entrance to the side of the building and there is lift access to all floors. More information on building access can be found on our AccessAble pages. 

Registration fees:

 Full conference: £270

 Full conference with dinner: £320

Key Dates: 

 Sunday 15 February 2026, 23:59 GMT - Pre-registration and Abstract Submissions open

 Sunday 15 March 2026, 23:59 GMT - Abstract Submission and Pre-registration close 

 Monday 20 April 2026, 23:59 BST - Applicants will be informed if their submissions have been successful by this date, paid registrations open 

 Monday 25 May 2026, 23:59 BST - Registration close. 

Getting here

Newcastle upon Tyne is home to an international airport and is easily accessible by air, rail and road. 

Delegates travelling by train to the workshop are eligible for a 20% discount on LNER trains - to be sent the discount code, please get in touch. 

More more information about getting here, please click the image below. 

Newcastle International airport with heading 'Getting Here'

Conference Dinner 

The conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 10 June at The Biscuit Factory, an independent art gallery and restaurant located on the edge of Ouseburn, Newcastle’s cultural quarter. The Biscuit Factory is a short 10 minute walk away from Northumbria University's campus. 

The Biscuit Factory art gallery

 

 

Workshop Venue

The workshop will be held in the Great Hall in the Sutherland Building, number 27 on the campus map. 

Sutherland Building is a Grade II listed building home to the University's School of Architecture. An accessibility guide for the building is available here.

Click the image below for a virtual tour of the Great Hall. 

gRAND HALLWAY WITH CAPTION 'sUTHERLAND bUILDING'

Accommodation 

Thanks to our partners at the NewcastleGateshead Initiative (NGI), attendees can take advantage of special, discounted hotel rates across a range of conveniently located city hotels. Don't miss out — view the hotel selection, compare rates, and book now!

Motel One Hotel

 

 

 

The workshop programme is available to download here

The workshop abstract booklet is available to download here.

We acknowledge the support from the SPD Thomas Metcalf travel award.           American Astronomical logo

The recipients of the awards 2026 are

         Dr Shanwlee Sow Mondal (Catholic University, USA)

         Mr Bablu Mandal (Aryabhatta Research Institute, India)

UK Research and Innovation & Royal Astronomical Society logos 

Scientific Organising Committee: 

Inigo Arregui (IAC, Spain) 

Will Barnes (American University/NASA GSFC, USA) 

Richard Morton (Northumbria University, UK) 

Nicolas Poirier (Orleans University, France) 

Vanessa Polito (LMSAL, USA) 

Jeff Reep (University of Hawaii, USA) 

Stephane Regnier (Northumbria University, UK – chair) 

Alexander Russell (St Andrews University, UK) 

Seray Şahin (Ardeniz University, Türkiye and BBSO, USA)

 

Local Organising Committee: 

Nikita Balodhi 

Harry Birch  

Luca Franci 

Natasha Jeffrey 

Hidetaka Kuniyoshi  

Richard Morton 

Stephane Regnier (chair) 

Julia Stawarz 

Steph Yardley 

Khurram

Abbas

University of Otago, New Zealand

Patrick

Antolin

Northumbria University

Nikita

Balodhi

Northumbria University

Luka

Banovic

KU Leuven

Luka

Banovic

KU Leuven

Harry

Birch

Northumbria University

Gert

Botha

Northumbria University

Stephen

Bradshaw

Rice University

Yajie

Chen

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Gabriele

Cozzo

Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian

Ineke

De Moortel

University of St Andrews

Bart

De Pontieu

LMSAL

Cooper

Downs

Predictive Science Inc.

Caroline

Evans

University of Colorado Boulder

Clara

Froment

LPC2E, CNRS

Erin

Goldstraw

University of Edinburgh

Boris

Gudiksen

RoCS, UiO

Thomas

Howson

Abertay University

Natasha

Jeffrey

Northumbria University

Craig

Johnston

George Mason University/NASA GSFC

Konstantinos

Karampelas

University of Warwick

Adrian

Kelly

CmPA, KU Leuven

James

Klimchuk

NASA-GSFC

Hidetaka

Kuniyoshi

Northumbria University

Nicolas

Le Nestour

LPC2E, CNRS

Bablu

Mandal

ARIES

Helen

Mason

University of Cambridge

Sarah

Matthews

Rebecca

Meadowcroft

University of Warwick

Teodora

Mihailescu

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

Qihui

Ming

University of St Andrews

Hemanthi

Miriyala

University of St Andrews

Richard

Morton

Northumbria University

Chris

Osborne

University of Glasgow

Paolo

Pagano

Università degli Studi di Palermo

Hitesh

Paliwal

ARIES

Ritesh

Patel

SwRI Boulder USA

Joseph

Plowman

SwRI

Nicolas

Poirier

LPC2E, CNRS

David

Pontin

University of Newcastle, Australia

Anna

Rankin

University of Lancashire

Pierre

Raynal

Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

Fabio

Reale

University of Palermo, Italy

Stephane

Regnier

Northumbria University

Mariola

Rozalska

University of Edinburgh

Alexander

Russell

University of St Andrews

Rashmi

Sarwal

University of Sheffield

Samuel

Skirvin

Northumbria University

Shawnlee

Sow Mondal

Catholic University of America/NASA GSFC

Ruhann

Steyn

North-West University

Edris

Tajfirouzeh

Queen Mary University of London

Paola

Testa

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Vadim

Uritsky

Catholic University of America at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Tom

Van Doorsselaere

KU Leuven

Steph

Yardley

Northumbria University


Information about support for students and ECRs to attend the workshop will be available shortly. 

A code of conduct for the workshop will be available here

During the registration process, attendees will be asked to adhere to the code of conduct of the conference.

 

For any enquiries about the workshop, please contact coronal.loop12@northumbria.ac.uk


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